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so stronghold but souless
Muh homie
Nothing beats stronghold
they're nothing alike, stop breathing you're wasting oxygen for the sentient beings on this planet
low iq moron
dick shaped mouth
hota is trash
forge but cringe
you guys are too negative about everything
fix eagle eye, learning, and do something about fire magic instead of making fricking fanfics.
i'm trans btw
not the game for you, troony
>Ganker comes up with funny joke
>/misc/ takes away the funny
>Ganker drives it into the ground for years after it's already dead
>steampunk shit
What's the point then? It's not Forge. Why add factions just to add factions?
>why add more content to the game when we can have less content!
Were you dropped on the head as a baby by any chance?
It's not content, it's dogshit fanfiction for shit-eaaters.
>moron doesn't know that steampunk was also considered for Forge
>UHM ACKSHUALLY everything in M&M is robots and aliens so HoMM3 also needs that I am very smart for knowing this
Not this shit again.
What?
Steampunk/scifi shit doesn't fit with HoMM3, stop trying to add it.
>b-but muh lore
Don't care.
Ok?
>blabbering of a madman
>Frogposter has a shit opinion
Every time
secondary opinion
>they hated him for speaking the truth.jpg
uhh... this but unironically? Is it not the default stance for everyone? The source material has robots and aliens so the strategy spinoff should have them too...
>The source material has robots and aliens so the strategy spinoff should have them too...
Except the strategy spinoff largely doesn't have them and in fact tends to refrain from bringing up the sci-fi stuff (HoMM 3 never brings up that Inferno are aliens for example).
Basically
>Except the strategy spinoff largely doesn't have them
yeah because the original devs ran out of time, this is essentially restored content with some vatnik vision twist.
>(HoMM 3 never brings up that Inferno are aliens for example)
God I am glad I don't care about the lore of this shit
Haha devil goes brrr
Can you find a single mention of angels being robots, Inferno being aliens, etc in HoMM3?
>Is it not the default stance for everyone?
What the frick did you think happened to forge?
devs ran out of time/money?
They removed it because they got negative feedback and death threats then replaced it with the massively halfassed Conflux
so we have autism to thank for the pile of shit that is conflux
epic
To be honest forge designs were ridiculously bad. Naga tank is one of the dumbest designs I have seen in anything ever.
can you link some of the designs?
He can't because only a handful of official models were released to the public
Naga Tank is concept art that was leaked and any other Forge unit model is fanmade
what is that lmao
most russian shitposts are less out of place, it wouldve been great
Google acid cave forge.
They received death threats from autists who didn't like a town with a heavy sci-fi theme in homm 3. If it was a question of time and money they wouldn't have resorted to completely scrapping forge to make conflux instead.
too bad it doesnt have more humans. i dont like using non-humans.
Rotwang? Really?
rotted wang
the obligatory desert town should've been egypt themed and instead of this thing we should've gotten forge, only homos who didn't play M&M6 will disagree
>egypt themed
Egyptgays are mentally ill
>forge
not canon
>blocks you're path
nevermind the mummies and pyramids that already are in HOMM3
Play VCMI if you want an Egypt town. Pavilion's finished fairly recently.
Besides, Factory's terrain is wastelands, not desert. You can have both. It's going to take some time for Factory to be ported to VCMI, though.
Is it actually any good?
VCMI is to Heroes 3 like GIMP is to Photoshop
It's a cobbled-together mess held together by duct tape
I was referring to the town
Fanfic tier, if you're into this sort of stuff it's OK but don't expect anything near the quality of real Heroes 3
It has the Anubises as the level 7 unit. That's all that matters.
looks like a good start to the year for slavs
>it's real
holy SHIT
I'm gonna go try it right away, thanks for letting me know anon
Gee why do you get 2 lvl7 creature dwelling? Anyway I don't like this faction at all, it seem too boring?
>Halfling
Better than Master Gremlin for sure.
>Mechanic
It breath attack feel really unnecessary since it has slow speed so barely any chance to get to use it. It heal is quite good though.
>Armadillo
Literally horned demon with no special ability.
>Automaton
One of the best early unit, it does no retaliation with decent speed and sync well mechanic heal ability since it can self destruct each time when it stack die.
>Sandworm
Not bad but nothing special, gain additional strike when it consume corpse and ability to burrow(fly).
>Gunslinger
Literally worse stats than cyclops despite having same price.
>Couatl
One of the good unit, can cast invulnerability on it self which mean you can get free bite on their squishy unit without getting any punishment.
>Dreadnought
Worse hydra with aoe skill that does friendly fire and it bulky slow.
>Gee why do you get 2 lvl7 creature dwelling?
because despite that factory is still worse than cove
If I understood the situation correctly, the major guy among the devs has died in an accident, and the rest doesn't have half the talent and motivation to work on the mod. So they've barely scrapped together enough effort to finish the new version "in his honor".
I seriously doubt we will ever hear about further development of the mod.
>So they've barely scrapped together enough effort to finish the new version "in his honor".
In absolute terms Factory took as much time to make as Cove did.
>I seriously doubt we will ever hear about further development of the mod.
You wish.
you couldnt possibly be more wrong
factory had been "done" since before the guy died 2 years ago, it was the campaign, cutscenes and animations that took time. like the other anon who replied to you said, theres absolutely nothing wrong with factory visually and conceptually its the same the lead guy wanted
the mod will also continue to receive minor balance updates like before, probably wont get any new factions though
>t6 tier unit has 45 hp
what the frick? I get that he's a shooter, but come the frick on, it's not even the wyvern situation where you can get them on a second day
Why does the slavrune trailer have 3x the views
English speakers need to step up and stop consooming trash
I'm happy that slavs finally began distributing computers powerful enough to play a 25 year old 2D turn-based game but it's puzzling that they latched on to a game that wasn't even great for it's time, let alone not even the high point of it's own franchise. If they wanted to obsess over cheesing incapable AI and having multiplayer battles, at least pick something like a Knightsoft game.
people who think homm2 is better are delusional nostalgiagays
I'm still early into the first scenario, but I have to say I do dig the town screen, very pretty. The whole aesthetic is alright, I certainly prefer it to the original forge designs. Feels a lot like HoMM II wizard, just with wild west mixed in for some reason.
Rampart has Japanese buildings for some reason
Fortress has Aztec architecture for some reason
I'd say this is on brand
It feels like american wild west and steampunk
also dune, the worms and all
I like the airships, they look and feel fitting within the universe.
Yo yo yo yo what the frick they released factory? Actually it's out? We can play it now???
yeah, I'm playing right now
https://h3hota.com/en/download
Tomb of Varn triggers my ptsd. Not as much as Darkmoor, but still.
how does your game look like that, the screen stretched to fit the resolution as opposed to having a smaller screen and the background is the overworld map?
This is just running directly the exe from the hota update from that link. It's the default look.
i tried running that exe and the game still looks the same
not that i mind, i think this way looks better. was just curious
Download the HD mod, if you already have it then under graphics change the mode to (stretchable) 32 bit by verok. Don't forget your resolution either.
any recommendations on the stretch filter? leave as default: non+hermite?
I use brz4, try out the settings until you get the ones you like. That should take care of all that extra space you were talking about though.
not the person you were replying to but had the same issue and that fixed it. thanks anon.
No problem, enjoy dude
I hate it, aestethic just clashes with rest of the game without having any lore or cool idea behind it like forge.
You're a gay
Forge would've clashed with the rest of the game as well. People will bring up the original might and magic games as justification for high-tech but then ignore that the might and magic games tend to tuck that shit in the endgame precisely because its meant to be a big genre-shift on the swords and sorcery fantasy the games present themselves as.
at the very least it has that lore justification after evil ending of M&M7 which was supposed to be original AB plot
now we still have units that look like they are from a shitty vcmi mod anyway
How can I make the game stay in high resolution but make the buttons bigger?
I set the lowest resolution for source size in hd mod and that's the effect
Factory in Duel when?
Shame there's so few new maps
I prefer WoG more. But good on them for finally finishing this town.
I can't play WoG more than one game in a while. I don't really think it's a "good" mod, it's just different enough that it's a nice change of pace from the usual HoMM games.
Well, it's an aquired taste. Also it needs some time to get used to, and to figure out best settings (turning everything ON surely will break the game hard).
i tried wog once years ago, it was such a clusterfrick
>install WoG as a kid
>finish my turn next to a mob
>it automatically attacks me
>uninstall WoG
Cove was fricking trash and so is this
Soulless trash
Yeah to be honest I don't like either much, but at least they're not ugly as fricking shit and super random like a lot of these other Russian mods. Soulless but they don't look too much out of place. I don't like Conflux either, and that's a canon faction.
Thing I hate about Cove the most is the trash song they used for when you're in the town
It's so bad
I always mute the music in any game I play and listen to my own. Even in HOMM3, which is arguably the only game in existence you should play with music on.
how can you consider this bad? its easily top 3 for me
because it's using Windows 95 MIDI-like instruments instead of real instruments like the original soundtrack does
don't make me laugh now
you're tasteless
who cares about units or power level
let's hear town's theme
It's ok
>Get the ORIGINAL FRICKING HEROES 3 MUSIC COMPOSER to write the Factory town theme
>Don't even use it because you "didn't like it" and use your own Windows 95 MIDI dogshit instead because you know better
Lmao
LMAO
Didn't everyone agree Paul dropped the ball on that one though?
Got a link to the track in question?
This is like 10000000x better than the dogshit ingame, what the frick?
Not even memeing or kidding, it's literally so much better
i agree
the factory theme is a disappointment after the excellent cove theme
oh shit i just realised it was the main dev who did the cove theme, no wonder the new one is not up to par. discarding romeros work was a mistake. i think they put it in the campaign instead?
>Not even memeing
You are because you're trying to make out a literal WIP of the guy playing the piano as the finished thing he submitted.
I could have sworn we had an actual finished version but I may be misremembering.
I am 100% not memeing, even the melody alone in the WIP version is just beautiful in comparison to the mess from the release version. Seriously man
Ok this was bugging me because I swore I wasn't misremembering, I went through the archives and found a previous thread where paul's theme that supposedly got scrapped was posted: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/618633046/#618677556 No idea how legit this is but if that really was his theme then I get why they didn't use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z8hiR3E4WA
What the frick is this
It doesn't even sound anything like the WIPs, boy were those some WIPs
its over romerosisters
it turns out the wip played by romero here may itself even be the main dev's work. damn
This is 4 or 5 themes packed into 1, has more personality though.
How do i check how far enemy's units can go? I saw it in some youtube vids.
hold ctrl and hover over unit
oh
armadildos feel like such a needless addition. Remove them, give gunslingers a bit more health, and the roster becomes fine
oh shit, I thought you would have to choose between the bird and the dreadnoughts, but you can get BOTH? Isn't that kind of OP?
So.. how does the music piece, composed by Paul Antony Romero, sound like? Supposedly the one, which HotA team did not like and not used in town theme
see
I've only played a bit so far but:
>halflings
shooting units are always nice, upgrade lets them ignore a bit of defence, so that's not bad either. Low health, but to be expected, bretty good overall.
>mechanics
initially nothing special, not bad, not particularily good. Later on their ability to fix machines is fantastic though. 20hp per unit? That's huge.
>armadillos
Nothing special. Slow and tanky, but no abilities. They aren't really bad, but unupgraded they're too slow to take for the main hero imo, and upgrade is barely even worth it.
>automatons
very good - decently fast and can be repaired. Upgraded ones have no retaliation which is even better. Haven't experimented with the self destruct, but it probably works wonders with the repair.
>sandworms
decent. Solid speed + "flight" and alright stats in general. Upgraded ones can devour a corpse by moving onto it, which gives them a double attack later. Pretty meh tbqh, getting into enemy range without attacking is rarely worth it, but I suppose it could be situationally useful.
>gunslingers
pretty bad. Absolutely garbage health, ok other stats, pretty bad ability. You can do a preemptive range counterattack, but it's very rare that anyone would attack them with ranged units anyway. Decent speed for a shooter though I guess.
>birds
Stats are nothing to write home about, but that's understandable, considering you get 2 t7 units. Fantastic skill, though unfortunately counterattack doesn't trigger when you use it, so you can't use it to get rid of it.
>dreadnoughts
haven't really used them much yet. Slow, but alright stats. Can be repaired by mechanics though, which potentially makes them fantastic.
The biggest issue with the town imo is that they lack a fast unit. Their fastest is the upgraded bird at 15 speed, their second best is the same bird before upgrade at 11. You won't be moving first against most enemies.
Still can't believe they rejected Paul Romero's track for the town theme.
They didn't reject it. They used it in the campaign.
It was just too bombastic for a town theme.
Link to the full track?
but Stronghold and Fortress themes aren't?
>It was just too bombastic for a town theme.
homie have you heard the fortress theme lmao
stop making shit up
absolute arrogance which I would FULLY expect from these devs, so high on their own farts
moron
homosexual
Paul Romero's Loving Is not the true path
Killing Hoes is the least of woes
Turdking on Winterland Street
uhh main menu theme, castle theme, grass theme
Does anyone actually have a link to the Paul Romero music that people are insisting should have been used for the town theme? All we have is a WIP of him playing a tune on his keyboard that seems to actually have been something the HOTA devs came up with themselves. Supposedly his rendition of the town theme is actually publicly available if it ended up being used in the campaign. Can we at least actually hear the music before saying it should have been the town theme or not?
>Can we at least actually hear the music before saying it should have been the town theme or not?
no, nobody plays homm campaigns
Only the HoTA devs and Paul Romero have the actual track.
its in the game
Did they not add any new scenarios with factory and its terrain??
>Added new maps: Air Supremacy, Fiery Riches, Carnival of the Abyss, Ville'de'Porte, Around the Bay, Claws, Long Road
Care to guess which ones feature wasteland terrain or factory towns dear anon?
Only tried the first one so far so that one
How do i stop Savecumming
>25 halflings vs 5 demons, auto-combat makes me lose 2 halflings
>manual combat makes me lose 10
am i moronic??
Learn to split stack but sometime luck factor it.
the auto-combat didnt split stacks
Did you use wait command to hit them at closer distance?
Monsters are a mixed back. Mechanic+Automaton are killer but Armadillo is inferno tier bad.
Isn't that basically balance? Avoid everything being good in order to avoid the town being OP.
What am I supposed to do in the campaign? Fire homies just show up on day 4 and eat my ass
Getting filtered by the first map wtf
Just channel your decade or more of slavic multiplayer autism and minmax your way to victory
>Couatl is just an Armageddon spam vehicle
I see the devs let their pvp autism get to them
actually they made changes so armageddon bombing doesnt work anymore, firstly you cant retreat on the first turn if you used a spell and high level heroes dont show back up in taverns anymore
i bought heroes 3, how do i play it? may someone please explain it?
Install the game to your hard drive and then run the .exe file
Of course, Now how do i learn how to play? Do i play the campaigns or watch beginner guides?
Perhaps you could try the manual and the in-game tutorial, which are made to be used together
>Do i play the campaigns or watch beginner guides?
Preferably both. I recommend starting with the resoration of erathia campaigns as they are slightly easier than the expansion campaigns.
Watch single match of pro player on youtube.
Play the ingame tutorial.
Try a campaign, or hotseat against yourself.